I have teaching my students animal and human sculpture in clay and this has renewed my fascination with it. The below sculpture was through the bisque fire about 7 months ago. I have spent the past 7 months experimenting with different glazes to put on her. It's still not quite perfect so I will figure out more this summer. I decided that I will put a Crystalline glaze on her and if you know about Crystalline Glazing, it is one of the most challenging, finicky glazes there is! The sculpture is larger than life sized.
The name of the piece is "Endless Opportunities." She reminds me of my students having the world open to them, facing the choice of which door to open.
And it's always fun to see the process. Here below you see how her back needed further hollowing and at this point in the process, the wooden dowel for support must be taken out.
Crystalline glazing is a very unique and challenging process. I dedicated thousand of hours to learning this tricky process in which even the best in the world say their success rate is about 50%. These bowls below were in the Towne Burr Show in April 1st -8th, 2017
December 2016 Christmas Sale - some work that I sold below (didn't get a chance to even take photos of most of the vases before selling so there are a couple of shots from the show.
The teapot below was in the McGroarty Arts Center's Artist Show in March 2016, and here are some more fun ones I made at that time.
These below bowls were made in 2015. I love the flow of different glazes together.
In June 2015, These cups were in the "All Cups Show" at McGroarty. The curator said that the ones in the first photo were the most creative cups in the show. These "flowers growing in stone" are connected to the stems by strong magnets. They are full sized 4" cups. All can be easily connected and disconnected by magnets that I attached to the bottoms.
This sculpture below was completed in January of 2014 and was published in the Lark's Book, 500 Figures in Clay, Volume 2 in July that same year. He was made because of an experience I had while teaching. The piece is called "Innocence and Honesty." The child of 5 years old said, "When I grow up, I want to be a princess because they get to wear big, beautiful dresses and high heels." He was being his beautiful, open self and I wanted to honor that with this sculpture of that dreamy look in his eyes right after he said it.
I preferred the color before kiln firing it below and he looks so cozy here:
In August 2013, the first teapot below was published in the Lark's Book, 500 Teapots, Volume 2.
In April 2012, both of these teapots were in the American Museum of Ceramic Art in an International Teapot Show.
The below pieces were a couple of my favorite pieces from handbuilding in 2011
One of my favorite pieces from 2010
Some of my favorite pieces from Glendale Community College in 2010
.The 18" thrown vase below is shown at my first formal pottery show in 2009
And some of my favorite jewelry creations from 2007 - 2009 where I sold at several yearly shows.
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